Nominet’s annual registrar conference takes place this November 4th in London’s Science Museum. If nothing else the UK registry operator is good at picking memorable locations for its events. Last year they chose Lord’s cricket ground and gave all attendees a cricket ball… More information on the event here
Month: October 2010
Italian Registry Ignores Its Partners
The Italian domain name registry issued a press release about hitting the 2 million domain mark. What’s interesting about the release is that there is zero mention of the domain name registrars. So does the Italian registry think that the domains registered themselves?
Italian ccTLD Registry Tops 2 Million Name Mark
In the last hour or so the .it registry topped the 2 million names registered mark. They hit the 1.5 million name mark in March 2008.
IEDR Release Annual Report
The IEDR, the operator of the .ie ccTLD registry, have released their annual report for 2009. The document, which obviously cost quite a bit to design, covers various aspects of the organisation’s activities and is not limited to the domain registrations. In common with quite a few ccTLD operators IEDR is also involved in ENUM,… Continue reading IEDR Release Annual Report
IEDR Celebrates 10 Years
The Irish domain name registry operator (IEDR) is celebrating 10 years. In recent weeks the number of registered .ie domain names exceeded the 150 thousand name mark.
Norid Trying To Scare Prospective Registrants of co.no domains?
Norid, the domain name registry for Norway (.no), has a page on their site about co.no which is worth reading. While most of it is “normal” ie. co.no is a domain and subdomains off it are being sold etc., etc., what is vaguely worrying is the last part of the page: The domain co.no is… Continue reading Norid Trying To Scare Prospective Registrants of co.no domains?
Belgian Registry Launch DNSSEC
The Belgian domain name registry, dns.be, has enabled DNSSEC starting today. DNSSEC uses cryptography to digitally sign DNS data to help avoid fraudulent attacks on users, such as cache poisoning and others. You can read more about the technology here
SE Registry Breaks One Million Name Mark
The Swedish domain name registry has announced that they have breached the one million domain name mark. Danny Aerts, CEO of the .se registry, is obviously delighted with the milestone: Achieving one million is confirmation that we have succeeded in making .se the obvious top domain choice in Sweden Full story on their site